PAGE, Margaret

Margaret Page of Salem, Massachusetts, was sent to Boston jail on 5 February 1643/4, as a ‘lazy idle and loytering person’, to be ‘sett to work for her liuinge’. On 15 December 1645, the town offered ‘Brother Browning’ fifty shillings to keep her in work for a year; if he agreed, she would not go to prison again. Later, c. 1646, ‘Goodwife Oliver’ (Mary Oliver*?) was ordered to give Page house-room.

On 30 September 1647 the town of Salem resolved, ‘for the transporting of Margaret Page into England … to pay by Rate £5’. She was to leave as soon as possible, either on Francis Willoughby's* ship or ‘the next after that goes’.

PALGRAVE, Anne

Anne Palgrave arrived in New England in 1630 with her husband Richard Palgrave, a physician. They settled at Charlestown and joined the Boston church early in 1631.

Anne travelled back to England as a widow. Richard Palgrave had died in the summer of 1651. Anne gained probate on her husband's will in October that year and went to England soon afterwards. Her daughter Elizabeth (who probably came to New England as a small child) had already married John Edwards of Stepney, Middlesex. At some point between 1651 and 1657, Anne's daughter Lydia married Edmund Heylett of Deptford, Kent. Anne Palgrave was in Stepney by 17 March 1656/7, when she appointed John Pierce [Pearse*] and Edmund Heylett of Stepney as her attorneys for business in New England.